Drawing on a close reading of nearly forty years' worth of personal letters and her will, and incorporating new archival material, Margaret Paston emerges from this study as the best example we have of how lay piety was negotiated and integrated into daily medieval life.

Autorentext
JOEL ROSENTHAL is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at The State University of New York, Stonybrook, USA.

Inhalt
Reading the Religious Life of Margaret Paston Margaret Paston's Calendar and Her Saints Margaret Paston in Context: Things Said, Done, and Owned Family Wills: Margaret Paston and the Rest What Did Margaret See?